As the deadline for comments on the FCC’s midband spectrum consultation came, the US debate about these important airwaves heated up. An unprecedented variety of stakeholders and would-be operators is eyeing spectrum between 3.5 GHz and 6 GHz, but with very different agendas. The regulator aims to get better use out of a portion of the C Band spectrum from 3.7 GHz to 4.2 GHz. Some players want a similar shared structure to the three-tiered CBRS scheme, proposed for the nearby 3.5 GHz band, to be expanded up to 4.2 GHz. This protects federal incumbents while supporting a licensed, priority access layer and an unlicensed, general access approach. Others are opposed to the whole idea of opening the 3.7-4.2 GHz…